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Daniel Anchor was transported on the Calcutta, departing 31st Jan 1803 and arriving 4th Oct 1803 with 305 passengers.
HMS Calcutta was the East Indiaman Warley (1795), converted to a Royal Navy ship. This ship of the line served for a time as an armed transport. She also transported convicts to Australia. The French Magnanime captured Calcutta in 1805. In 1809, after she ran aground during the Battle of the Basque Roads and her crew had abandoned her, a British boarding party burned her. In 1803 the Calcutta sailed into Port Phillip bay where at least 4 convicts escaped , in Sydney in April 1804 it was reported that 8 had died on the trip. Of the four known escapees one was shot on escape, 2 turned back after 2 days to reattach to the group at the camp in bay before the boat left , one continued on ...into Australia's history books. At least 13 convicts were transferred on to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), Australia.The ship also carried officers, wives and free settlers.
Calcutta (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/1, Page Number 336 |
| Source Description | This record is one of the entries in the British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database compiled by State Library of Queensland from British Home Office (HO) records which are available on microfilm as part of the Australian Joint Copying Pro |
| Original Source | Great Britain. Home Office |
| Compiled By | State Library of Queensland |
| Database Source | British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database |
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Australia, Convict Index Name Daniel Ankers Anchor Age 33 Birth Year abt 1770 Arrival Year 1803 Arrival State Sorrento Trial Place Maidstone Ass Ship Calcutta Occupation Butcher © 1997-2025 Ancestry
The Assizes for the county of county of Kent having ended on Saturday evening; the l8 following Prisoners received sentence of death: ... J. J ones and D. Anchor, for uttering, at Canterbury forged bank-notes, knowing them to be such ; ... Jones, Anchor, and Almond, were informed they were not to expect any, mercy, from the enormity of their crimes; and are the only three left for execution. Mirror of the Times, 7 Aug 1802.
Tasmanian Records. https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON22-1-1_0006 Per Calcutta, Daniel Anchor, Convicted at Kent Gaol Delivery, tried 4 Aug 1802, Life. Added at a later date: T.L put up. C.P. F.P 22/6/38.
On Friday last John Jones and Daniel Anchor, the two men mentioned in our last to have been committed for further examination, on suspicion of uttering forged Bank were re-examined before the mayor of this city, when Mr. Thomas Glover, one of the inspectors of the Bank, having clearly ascertained that the notes which they had tendered and those which were found in their possession were forged, they were , they were fully committed to take their trials, on the oaths of the Inspector and the several persons they had attempted to defraud; they are committed on two different counts, the one, for uttering and publishing, the other, tor having them in their possession. Kentish Gazette, 16 Feb 1802. Daniel Anchor and John Jones were capitally convicted of uttering forged bank notes in the city of Canterbury, well knowing then to be such. Weekly Dispatch, 8 Aug 1802.